commander in afghanistan general john allen. defense officials who are familiar with the hundreds of emails, 30,000 pages worth say that the general and kelley were having the, quote, email equivalent of phone sex. meanwhile petraeus' biographer paula broadwell has hired a lawyer. her father tells the new york daily news this is about something else entirely. the truth ain't come out. you wait and see, there is a lot more here than meets the eye. >> shepard: the email equivalent of phone sex. that is new here tonight. today we learned both of these generals, petraeus and allen, were involved in a custody dispute directly related to the same woman's family. >> in fact, both generals wrote letters of recommendation for kelley's sister who was involved in that custody dispute. some of them were on letterhead, official letterhead. the petraeus letter said, quote: we hosted them and the kelly li family for christmas dinner this past year petraeus wrote on september 20th of this year. in each case we have seen a very loving relationsh